This Crap Again?
And WGN is giving them a platform:
A new report outlining policy recommendations for reparations and what that means to Chicagoans will be released on Saturday.
Katelyn Johnson, the Executive Director of the BlackRoots Alliance, joined WGN News on Saturday morning to discuss the report.
So after Trump won over 20% of the black vote and is currently polling above 40% among black male voters, the democrats roll out the "free money!" train to attempt to drag black folks back to the left side, even though this argument has been made for decades and produced exactly zero results.
A few points:
- reparations are paid to the survivors of a wrong-doing, usually by the perpetrators of the wrong-doing. In this case, there aren't any and haven't been for over a hundred years;
- Illinois was on the side that fought against slavery. They won and slavery was abolished - by Republicans in you're a CPS student and never got taught history;
- our ancestors, along with most other American ancestors, weren't even here during slavery, nor during the immediate aftermath. That would seem to exclude us from any sort of liability. And spare us the "you benefited from the system." If we're going to start tracking generational "crimes," you better get a spreadsheet and some historical references;
- Chicago and Illinois (and the United States) are currently broke. Conehead is trying to float a horseshit bond issue that will add another $830 million to Chicago's unsustainable debt. There is no money to give away;
- and finally, if this ever came to fruition, the lawyers are going to have a field day tying it up in court for the next two or three generations. Guess who's going to make piles of money on the entire thing? That's right - the lawyers.
Thankfully, this tired old saw has been losing steam for the past five or ten years and the only people holding onto the premise are the morons currently out of power. And the community is waking up to the lies they've been told for sixty or seventy years.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
51 Comments:
Dead serious about this, not being flippant. Any reparations for an individual must be decreased by the amount of welfare, food stamps they and their ancestors received. In addition it should be adjusted for any “justice system impacted individuals” (formally known as criminals ) to reflect damages they caused society, victim individuals and for the cost of their arrest, prosecution and incarceration. That should shut up about 95% of these fucking parasites.
Fuck reparations I first heard of it in 1990 in city college KKC, havnt seen shit yet. I've been working since the age of 14, now retired from my crooked gov job in cook county, where is it? It's just smoke from the democrats overseer to keep you in bandages. Finally what should the payout be? A 1000, 5000 or 10,000? And like SCC said after the lawyers finished raping you lucky to walk with 500.
I visited the national cemetery in Vicksburg a few years back. Very moving experience. Girlfriend was crying at the sights. The largest memorial is to the illinois soldiers who died in huge numbers to free the slaves even though illinois was never a slave state. Illinois lost the most I believe. Conehead is a stupid fuck who just wants to rile up his ignorant base,to distract from him destroying the city. Pitiful excuse for a man.
I agree with majority of the post.
Minor thing is that the Republicans from that era are not the Republicans in today's era.
Personally, as an African-American male it seems that a lot of the stuff I see on social media currently ( granted social media does not represent real world opinions accurately) makes it seem as if black people were never mistreated in the history of this country.
My German family was vilified, beaten, and unemployed during ww1 and ww2 in Chicago.
Stop the nonsense about reperations.
That’s fine to give them a platform to spout this nonsense. What is not fine is not providing someone with an opposing view.
Umm the money tree currently is bare
Morons is an understatement.
Their website mainly features a donations button. another "grassroots organization" looking for a money grab.
start with getting money from all the US presidents who had slave owners in their family,,,,,hint,,,, everyone but Trump had a family with slaves
And I always thought Illinois was a free state.
Again, so glad I left that shithole.
Anything for free money. Try working hard, making your pay and put into a system called social security.
Democrats have been doing stealth reparations for decades. Just look at the police, fire, and teachers....
Poor baby
Reparations for the Irish ancestors that died building the water way canals in Illinois. They had no property value and salves did in 1830 and 1840s,therefore dangerous jobs went to the Irish
Let the payments begin....start with the kings, queens and powers to be in Africa that sold the African slaves to the English and other Europeans. Then let's get money from England for buying and transporting slaves to the United States and lastly let's take money from the Democratic party and their CPAC for instituting and fighting hard and creating civil war to keep slavery alive.
are you forgetting about the American Indians??? say what, huh?? Are you forgetting that there are more black slaves currently in africa now than there ever was in America? say what, huh?
already paid for look up President Johnson's War on Poverty. Here's a hint: It didn't work.
Thanks Guido. You are not only a genius but a true visionary. Now please STFU !
Offer them a 1 time dividend of $200. Then be done with it.
My grandparents came over on the boat in the 1920s with a couple of bucks. They had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery in the south. There was also zero "generational wealth" in my family. I'm sure there's many more like myself. Why should we pay?
As a third generation Mexican American. Yes, my people are/ were all citizens from the great state of Texas. I have NEVER met an African American with my last name unless they had Latin American roots. Apparently my family never owned any slave, absolving me of owing reparations to anyone. Black folks need to track down the original Jackson, Johnson, Robinson and Smith families down to get their reparations from them since they apparently owned the most slaves. By the way...slavery was illegal in Mexico. They didn't need slaves. They had Mexicans.
What about us Irish folks? I aint dark but I tan pretty well in the summer!
Even if it came to pass no amount would ever be enough. They would want money for kids they don’t have yet and what about the kids they might have? It’s about time they start looking elsewhere for some kind of handout.
Always the same old tired ass shit ! We wants more free shit !
It's just a game to string the freeloaders along.
The city & state are broke and it's only getting worse, but they'll keep pandering to them in the hopes they garner more votes come election time.
And the democrats from that era are not the democrats of today.
My parents were born in the 1920's and up until a several years ago, we were all hardcore democrats, but the dem party has gone so far overboard & are now batshit crazy, any answer vote than republican is insane
My Great- Great Grandfather lost a leg fighting for the Union. Do I get something?
Dave Chappelle - Reparations for Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc
Black Roots Alliance? Really? I thought it was another of the endless beauty salons in Englewood! With a PPP loan, of course,
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Some of us are the descendants of men who fought the Rebs at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg and a few other "burgs".
Enough of DEI....First it was "Jake from State Farm" ... Now it's Capt. America ! What's next ....... Mr T. telling me not to squeeze the Charmin.....
Leftists/Democrats have to do something to slow down Trump's momentum. Bigger picture, this is just one of many tactics we'll all continue to see them trotting out.
All the Left can do is lie and divide, some, (many of them), hoping they don't get caught.
A lot of rice bowls are getting turned over.
I'm a minority that's more minority than all of them combined where's my free handouts? I identify as one on the streets and that play game like they do, I have yet to ask how the government will give me hands out, drugs, foodstamps, section 8 housing and give me all da free money for my 10 bastard children from my baby mama stripper. Where can I sign up to be a degenerate like them and their children?
Their mistreatment is more than offset by the generous treatment they don't deserve.
My great great great great great great gran pappy was a slave in the south. Now give me my reperations!
All the deceased soldiers from the Civil War are reparations enough.
But you have midnight basketball!!!!
Knock off this reparations bullshit already. What a bunch of shit!!!
Commurtity be wanting mo free money. WTF! When does this shit end?
To those shitting all over this guy, he said nothing unreasonable
if we pay them will they and their progeny promise to shut up forever?
The Irish were slaves before the blacks knew what slavery was! Do Irish ancestors get their cut?
Prove that you descended from slaves, Prove that my family owned slaves. We're Irish we got here in 1849. Then go fuck yourselves!
Not only would they be shut up, they would end up being in debt to the taxpaying public.
The whole reparations discussion will get interesting when they discover that a lot of blacks have ancestry that includes slave traders and owners (think Kamala Harris). The city of New Orleans was founded by black slave traders - who owned Irish women as slaves to do housekeeping and cooking.
At its height, goods produced under slavery was only 6% of our GDP.
And you are staying with all the other dipshits. Good luck, Dumbass.
"Irish need not apply". You ever see this? It wasn't in the 1800s either
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